Violation: sabotaging beehives and a  water metering.

Location: Madama/ Nablus governorate.

Date: 21/12/2018.

Perpetrators: “Price tag” gangsters  from “Yizhar” settlement.

Victims: Raed Nassar.

Description:

In the early morning hours of Friday , a group from the gang “Price tag” raided Madam village and sabotaged 10 beehives, a water metering and cut a fig tree in the backyard of Raed Nassar family home as the victim who is  a teacher in a public school in Nablus testified.

Madama[1]:

Madama is 12km  to the southeast of Nablus and is surrounded by Iraq Burin and Till (north), Asira al Qibliya (west), Burin (east), and Urif (south).

According to 2017 population projections , Madama is inhabited by 2,092 people.

It has a total area of 3824 dunums, 190 of which are built-up area of the village.

The Israeli occupation confiscated 118 dunums for Yitzhar colony which was built on Madama lands in 1983. The colony is inhabited by 400 colonists.

The Israeli occupation is not only taking over land and water resources of the  village, but they are also targeting Palestinians residing there through attacking them on almost a daily basis.         

Yizhar:

The colony of Yizhar was established in 1983 on Palestinian lands belonging to the villages of Burin and Asira Al Qiblia south west of the city of Nablus. The colony has expanded multiple times ever since as additional tens of dunums were confiscated for that purpose. The additional dunums were taken from the villages of Burin, Asira Al Qiblia, Oreef, Madama and Huwwara. The built-up area of the colony was 158 dunums as of 2005 while the area of land under its jurisdiction is about 1,800 dunums located in Parcel .

[1] GIS - LRC.

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